Tracy Phillips

Paul Graham has posted another nice essay for the world to contemplate on. This time it is about Web 2.0. It looks like Web 2.0 is going to do what .com mainia Web 1.0 failed to get right.

From the article:

Web 2.0 means using the web as it was meant to be used, and Google does. That’s their secret. The web naturally has a certain grain, and Google is aligned with it. That’s why their success seems so effortless. They’re sailing with the wind, instead of sitting becalmed praying for a business model, like the print media, or trying to tack upwind by suing their customers, like Microsoft and the record labels.

Amen to that brother.

All in all, another really good read from Mr. Graham.

I just finished watching Dick Hardt’s entertaining presentation on Identity 2.0 at OSCON 2005.

There is not a lot of meat into what his company Sxip (pronounced skip) is doing with Identity 2.0, but it does get you to thinking about what Identity actually means and that with web apps there needs to be a method for presenting your identity to the Internet in a trusted fashion. Currently we have authentication but that really doesn’t tell who we are as individuals. Hopefully real identity will come together as part of Web 2.0.